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Key Science Projects

Maintained by CGWW

The Key Science programs of the PS1 Science Consortium are organized as follows

1. Populations of Objects in the Inner Solar System

Leaders: Robert Jedicke (IfA) and Richard Wainscoat (IfA)

2. Populations of objects in the Outer Solar Sytem

Leader: Matthew Holman (CfA)

3. Low-Mass Stars, Brown Dwarfs, and Young Stellar Objects

Leaders: Wolfgang Brandner (MPIA) and Eugene Magnier (IfA)

4. Search for Exoplanets by Dedicated Stellar Transit Surveys

Leaders: Cristina Afonso (MPIA) and Thomas Henning (MPIA)

5. Structure of the Milky Way and the Local Group

Leaders: Eric Bell (MPG) and Hans-Walter Rix (MPG)

6. A Dedicated Deep Survey of M31

Leaders: Ralf Bender (MPE) and Stella Seitz (MPE)

7. Massive Stars and Supernova Progenitors

Leaders: Stephen Smartt (QUB) and Rolf-Peter Kudritzki (IfA)

8. Cosmology Investigations with Variables and Explosive Transients

Leaders: John Tonry (IfA), Chris Stubbs (Harvard), and Adam Riess (JHU)

9. Galaxy Properties

Leader: TIm Heckman (JHU)

10. Active Galactic Nuclei and High-Redshift Quasars

Leaders: Ken Chambers (IfA) and Fabian Walter (MPG)

11. Cosmological Lensing

Leaders: Nick Kaiser (IfA), Alan Heavens (Edinburgh), and Andy Taylor (Edinburgh)

12. Large-Scale Structure

Leaders: Shaun Cole (UK), Stephi Phelps (MPG), and Ralf Bender (MPG)